Re: how does one format a floppy to use a vfat partition

[CaT <cat@zip.com.au>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:07:46PM -0800, jcunningham@engine8.com wrote:
> hi list, i've been reading tons of docs on mkfs and mtools because i need
> to make a copy of a somewhat corrupt ms floppy which is vfat but can't
> find the command to do so. so, how does one format a floppy to have a vfat
> partition and not just an msdos fat or fat32 partition?  i re-rolled my

fat32 is vfat which is fat32 so if you can format for fat32 you'll be
fine.

also, formatting a partition should be the same as formatting a floppy.

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